Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chorus of Advice. Despite the remaining inflationary tugs, most of his advisers are now cautioning the President against a tax hike. The economy, said one White House aide, is in approximately the same shape as Baby Bear's porridge when Goldilocks found it: "Not too hot and not too cold -just right." Most of the Government's economists now see a modest increase in the gross national product of 4% or $50 billion (to some $790 billion) for next year, an indication that the economy has lost much of the steam that has kept it percolating since...
...which was at first thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed to be spread through much of the country. Though its distribution is still spotty, it is beginning to bear the marks of a network of defensive missiles in a C-shape, with the open mouth of the C facing eastward to the vast China landmass. The system thus would be athwart practically every path that U.S. missiles -launched from silos in the continental U.S. or from aboard submarines in the Atlantic or Mediterranean -would have to cross in order...
Damned Little Milk. When the 90th Congress convenes next month, nothing will occupy more of its attention than the future shape and direction of the Great Society. There will be demands for expanding it; as Poverty War Commander Sargent Shriver puts it, "We were just about to put the bottle in the baby's mouth, and we find there's damned little milk to give." There will be equally strident demands for contracting it; with the Viet Nam war siphoning off billions of dollars, a big budgetary deficit is in prospect unless spending is cut somewhere...
Nobody is likely to suggest that the Great Society be abandoned. The focus of the debate, rather, will be on how to spend the money more effectively. Only when that problem is resolved will the Great Society begin to take the shape that Lyndon Johnson foresaw for it 31 months...
...whip the country into shape, Gestido will have the power to designate certain legislation as "emergency" and therefore automatic law unless Congress acts within a given period. If Congress rejects the new legislation, Gestido can simply dissolve it and rule by decree until new congressional elections are held. As a rein on him, major presidential decisions must be ratified by his eleven-man Council of Ministers. Whatever those decisions may be, they will entail plenty of belt tightening. "I will simply say that we are poor," said Gestido, "and that the poor should live as such. If in some future...